Balaji Srinivasan
23 statements across 6 episodes · 16 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 28, 2021 by Sam Parr · said 67 times in 28 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shaan Puri (37), Sam Parr (16), Codie Sanchez (5), George Mack (3), Dharmesh Shah (2), Saagar Enjeti (1), Mike Maples (1), Anthony Pompliano (1)
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2025 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2022 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
- Kevin Rose: His $100M/Year Watch Blog, Money From Digg.com, & Web3 Business (#382)
- From Flipping iPhones To Selling Oculus For $2 Billion To Facebook | Palmer Luckey (#378)
- How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
- This Guy Went From $0 to Billionaire By Starting A Toy Factory In China (#372)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 43 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
- How to Buy Distressed Assets, How to Network with Codie Sanchez | My First Million Ep. #176
- 4 Big Trends and $0 to $1 Billion Startup Idea Frameworks | My First Million #191
- How to Make Millions With a Modern Day Infomercial | My First Million #221
- The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Blockchain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why.
- How Virtual Horses are Making Millions & A Potential 9-Figure Company | My First Million #181
- MFM #169: How One Man Has Built 5, Billion Dollar Companies
- Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197
- A Discussion on Sam & Shaan's Recent Investments | My First Million #195
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
Everything said about Balaji Srinivasan, oldest first
Apr 28, 2021 positive
Apr 30, 2021 positive
Parr: Being Slightly Above Average IQ Is Optimal for Execution
“You know, for the longest time, I actually thought that the lower your IQ, like you want your IQ to be just above average, but not really high, because the really smart people I meet other than him, they typically talk themselves out of anything. And so anyway…”
May 5, 2021 negative
May 5, 2021 positive
May 5, 2021 positive
Balaji: On-chain data makes narrative bias and omitted facts quantifiable
“Editorial judgment is now quantifiable because you have this layer of the raw facts that are on chain, and then narrative becomes tangible because it's which facts you actually cite in your story. Okay. And so the selection function is basically just like a ra…”
May 5, 2021 positive
Balaji: Interviewers should require candidates to teach them something new
“Every interview he did, he wanted that person to teach them something, right? Which did a few things. First is it meant even if the interviewer didn't hire them, he gained something out of it, right? But second is it's also sort of got their teaching abilities…”
May 5, 2021 positive
Balaji: Andreessen, Horowitz, Ravikant, Armstrong, and Ehrsam are daily intellectual sparring partners
“Mark and I have kept up a high bandwidth conversation for almost a decade now. Mark and Ben for sure. Neville Rovi-Kant you know, who's a very good friend of mine. And Armstrong, Fred Urson. These are really smart guys who like basically folks who I get a boun…”
May 5, 2021 bullish
Balaji: 2020s will bring startup cities and 2030s network states
“I think it's a 20 year project, and you know, basically my one liner on this is, 2000 were the tech companies, 20 tens, crypto protocols, 20 twenties, startup cities, 20 thirties, network states. Okay. So, company, protocol, city, state. I think that's where w…”
May 5, 2021 positive
Balaji: I invest on an ideological basis, passing on pure financial plays
“I invest on an ideological basis.
I invest in the world that I'd want to build, and there's probably things which are
You know, good financial investments that you know, I just not interested in something.
If it's just making money, I can sort of force myself…”
May 5, 2021
Balaji: Digital networks decoupled geographic proximity from cultural proximity
“So if somebody lives in a city, in an apartment building, they often don't know their next door neighbors, may not even recognize the person who's living 50 feet away from them, right? Literally this person is living, eating, sleeping there, but you walk down …”
May 5, 2021 positive
Balaji: Products Must Deliver Visceral, Instantly Explainable Benefits to Succeed
“You know, the, those hooks basically, I think you need to deliver a visceral instant benefit to somebody, right? Where in a second you can explain what it is. Okay. A newsletter that pays you, right? Earn Bitcoin for submitting a form in a minute, right? So in…”
May 5, 2021 positive
Balaji: Tech investing swings yield outsized, unexpected returns over time
“One of the, Funny things about this whole space, this, just this tech thing is if you just stay in the game long enough and you take enough swings, ones that you just don't expect will just connect much harder. I mean, like, you know, there's investments that …”
May 5, 2021 positive
Srinivasan: Initial goal is building a global community of technological progressives
“The way I look at it is the V one goal is to build a community, at least with seven to eight nine, then I'll talk about the V two is to build a community of technological progressives who are,
Like, I mean, sort of like YC's founders, but not just tech founder…”
May 5, 2021 bullish
Balaji plans to fund global pseudonymous writers and diverse voices
“So what I want to do is invest in lots of individual you know, diverse influencers, pseudonymous voices around the world. Okay. So basically, you know, everything that's not Brooklyn wokes, you know, all of these other voices that are underrepresented in our c…”
May 5, 2021
May 5, 2021 positive
Balaji: Keep Active Problems in Mind to Spot Fitting Solutions
“Feynman had this concept that I think about a lot, which is I have a bunch of active problems at any one time, like how to decentralize social networks, how to build alternatives to media corporations, how to establish decentralized truth.”
May 5, 2021 neutral
May 5, 2021 bullish
Srinivasan: Early investor in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, and innovative coins
“I was an early investor in cryptocurrencies. So Bitcoin, Ethereum Zcash, a bunch of other ones you've heard of. I shouldn't say every major coin, but every major coin that I think has some technological innovation you know, I've probably got like something in …”
May 5, 2021 positive
Balaji: Individuals must prioritize truth first, health second, and wealth third
“Basically you're pursuing, you know, truth, Health and wealth in that order. And I think that's actually the right priority order, right? So learn truth, you know, determine what is true, pursue health, you know, because without that, you have really nothing e…”
May 20, 2021 negative
Puri: Taylor Lorenz builds brand by picking Twitter fights with tech founders
“Her brand of self-promoting herself as a journalist is confrontation. She gets in confrontations with Keith Raboi, with Balaji, with Naval, with whoever, right? She just goes and picks fights on Twitter with Marc Andreessen. And so she goes to the biggest name…”
Jun 30, 2021
Mar 30, 2023 positive
Shah: Balaji Srinivasan has top-five raw intellectual horsepower
“He's like quite nearly one of the top five people I've ever encountered, like even on the internet in terms of raw, you know, what I call wattage, just raw horsepower. And he, he's like an AI unto himself, right? Like just the knowledge that he has.”